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...moments that followed, my immediate relief and satisfaction turned into anger and indignation. Both parties involved in the debate resorted, on alternate occasions, to attempts to disrupt the meeting. Those unhappy with the decision to overturn last week's action attempted to adjourn the meeting. Members remarked that other parts of the agenda meant nothing in the new context. Although I deeply respect many members of this faction, I believed that the designated agenda for the meeting should not have been ignored as a knee-jerk reaction to the passage of a resolution they opposed. While Frank Lockwood proposed...
Later in the meeting, activists who had previously acted by the council's rules initiated a frenzied attempt to disrupt the council's business. Members of groups such as the Society for Creative Action abandoned an effective set of rules when the rules no longer served the group's motives. No more than 20 students, chanting "let her speak," impaired (temporarily) a processs which had served them, along with the rest of the Harvard community, extremely well. They must know that their motives do not justify their methods, and even a member such as myself, who has actively supported their...
...Family Life Education and Adolescent Sexuality Program, which he created. Pregnancy-prevention courses, Carrera argues, are generally too narrow in focus to succeed. His approach is holistic, born of a simple premise: Give young people a sense of their own promise, and they will not be as likely to disrupt their lives with an early pregnancy...
Hoffman practiced it more dexterously than anyone else, even as one of the Chicago Eight, the group of radical activists, including Tom Hayden and Black Panther Bobby Seale, who were tried for plotting to disrupt the convention. Hoffman and four others were found guilty of crossing state lines with intent to riot, a conviction later overturned...
March 25--President Nathan M. Pusey '28 tells a student-faculty advisory committee the Corporation has decided to "do everthing possible to keep ROTC." At least 150 anti-ROTC students disrupt the meeting...